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    Help with Dell XPS L502x Blu ray player

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by hreiedv, Apr 22, 2011.

  1. hreiedv

    hreiedv Newbie

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    I just bought my l502x with a bluray player. Wanting t try it out I also bought a couple of Blu rays.

    At first attempt the computer cannot play the discs, even when using cybelink power dvd. So I did some googleing and downloaded cybelink bd/hd advisor.

    The advisor comfirmed that my system should be able to play bluray in every respect except for one part. "The computer does not have a blu ray disk drive".

    The first thing I thought was "I forgot to order it with blu ray". So i checked and whaddayaknow it's a blu ray.


    So why can't I play Blu ray discs?
     
    hreiedv, Apr 22, 2011
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  2. Malifiss

    Malifiss Notebook Guru

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    There is a firmware update for the bluray drive on the Dell support page (came out 2 days ago). Try updating it, and see if it works then.
     
    Malifiss, Apr 22, 2011
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  3. hreiedv

    hreiedv Newbie

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    tried, didn't help
     
    hreiedv, Apr 22, 2011
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    Bushmaster Newbie

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    Did you make any software changes? I had a similar problem after replacing McAfee anti-virus with Norton.

    I ended up re-formatting and doing a clean install of Win7. Went with MSE for my anti-virus and PowerDVD started working again.
     
    Bushmaster, Apr 23, 2011
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